Tentative coal labor pact could aid Southern Illinois economy
The Washington announced tentative United Mine Workers contract may avert a lengthy strike, with a week of work stoppage possible. If ratified, it could stabilize earnings, protect mining families, and position Southern Illinois to gain from rising export markets, marking an economic milestone for 1981.
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Illinois
United Mine Workers
UMW
Pension Fund
Arbitration Review Board
Reagan
Southern Illinois
Amax Coal Co
Delta
Peabody Coal Co
Kaskaskia
Mississippi
One Voice Promise Fails in Reagan Foreign Policy
Reagan’s claim to speak with one voice clashes with a string of foreign policy bobbles and reversals. Pipes comments, Bushnell briefings, and Lehman remarks sparked disavowals as officials acknowledge lack of a coherent policy framework amid zigzags and internal tensions.
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Hedrick Smith
New York Times
Washington
Ronald Reagan
Edwin Meese 3d
Richard E. Pipes
Harvard
National Security Council
White House
State Department
Pipes
Soviet Union
Hans- Dietrich Genscher
West Germany
James S. Brady
Brady
John A. Bushnell
Bushnell
el Salvador
Caspar W
Weinberger
Europe
Alexander M. Haig, Jr
Navy
John F. Lehman
Moscow
Lehman
Reagan seeks broader authority for US intelligence gathering
The Reagan administration proposes an executive order to expand covert data collection on Americans and foreign targets. It would loosen Carter era restrictions, reduce attorney general oversight, allow intrusions such as searches and infiltration of domestic groups, and widen CIA latitude in the United States.
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Robert Pear
New York Times
Washington
Reagan Administration
United States
Ford
Carter
Inter-Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Reagan
White House
Nelson A. Rockefeller
CIA
Letters on the Human Life Amendment debate thinly veiled as personal freedom critique
A reader contesting Leslie Brown-Kanter’s March 15 letter about the Human Life Amendment argues the points are distortions designed to smokescreen real issues. The author rejects anti-HLA stereotypes, defends reproductive rights, and urges study of fetology and gynecology to resolve whether the fetus is a living human person.
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Southern Illinois An
Leslie Brown-Kanter
Ms. Brown- Kanter
Infants Rights proposal amid budget cuts and abortion debate
Robert T. Phillips from Carbondale appeals to anti abortion leaders to back a pregnant woman, infants and children Bill of Rights as an alternative to a constitutional anti abortion amendment. He links Reagan budget cuts to nutrition and housing harms and argues for strong pro choice action.
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Southern Illinois
Supreme Court
Phyllis Schlafly
Strom Thurmond
Jessie Helms
Robert T. Phillips
Carbondale
Fundamental overpopulation question in abortion debate
The Southern Illinoisan letters argue that the core issues are unrestrained reproduction and how to care for children from birth to adulthood. They urge practical birth prevention and sex education over emotionally charged campaigns for a Human Life Amendment, stressing social consequences of irresponsible sexuality.
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Southern Ilinoisan
Southern Illinoisan
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